Climate averages 1991–2020
San Francisco weather
in April.
A mild, fairly dry month: the 7th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a mild month in San Francisco: daytime highs average 17.0°C and nights cool to about 8.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 37 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes April a fairly dry month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 09 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Daly City (9 km away). In April its highs average 15.1°C, 2.0°C cooler than San Francisco, with 37 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, San Francisco ranks joint 315th of 498 for the warmest April highs and joint 116th of 498 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 498 cities is 19.4°C; San Francisco is 2.3°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 1.8°C to 18.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 37 mm to 18 mm.
The annual picture
April in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
San Francisco climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 13.6°C6.1°C | 6.1°C | 109 | 10.1 | 9.910 h |
| February | 14.6°C7.0°C | 7.0°C | 113 | 9.5 | 10.811 h |
| March | 15.7°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 81 | 9.3 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 17.0°C8.8°C | 8.8°C | 37 | 5.0 | 13.113 h |
| May | 18.8°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 18 | 2.8 | 14.214 h |
| June | 21.0°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 4.3 | 0.8 | 14.715 h |
| July | 21.5°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 0.3 | 0.1 | 14.515 h |
| August | 22.1°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 0.7 | 0.1 | 13.614 h |
| September | 22.7°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 1.5 | 0.4 | 12.512 h |
| October | 21.0°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 24 | 3.1 | 11.311 h |
| November | 16.6°C8.7°C | 8.7°C | 56 | 6.1 | 10.210 h |
| December | 13.5°C6.3°C | 6.3°C | 108 | 10.1 | 9.610 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
April in nearby cities
- Daly City in AprilUnited States · 9 kmHigh 15.1°C · Low 8.7°C · 37 mm rain
- Oakland in AprilUnited States · 13 kmHigh 18.9°C · Low 8.9°C · 34 mm rain
- Berkeley in AprilUnited States · 17 kmHigh 18.9°C · Low 8.6°C · 34 mm rain
- San Mateo in AprilUnited States · 25 kmHigh 17.4°C · Low 9.3°C · 41 mm rain
- Hayward in AprilUnited States · 32 kmHigh 18.9°C · Low 9.0°C · 33 mm rain
- Redwood City in AprilUnited States · 36 kmHigh 17.6°C · Low 9.4°C · 41 mm rain
- San Ramon in AprilUnited States · 39 kmHigh 19.3°C · Low 8.5°C · 33 mm rain
- Vallejo in AprilUnited States · 39 kmHigh 20.3°C · Low 8.5°C · 37 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for San Francisco) is explained once on the San Francisco year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Daly City lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.